Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. So lots to get to this morning. and fortunately for us we have a ritual on this show to make sure that as we are approaching all of these stories, all of these conversations, we have a ritual that allows us to do so with the spirit of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And that ritual is called a moment of gratitude. And it's pretty important because, frankly, the work of Black Talklandia is difficult and our private lives just as individuals living in

America or living on planet Earth quite frankly also can be pretty challenging and so again this

ritual is called a moment of gratitude because it allows us to intentionally tap into emotions that

will allow us to not be trapped by fear and will allow us to participate in the joy that is resistance.

The ritual is pretty simple, so simple, in fact, it goes a little something like this.

Hit it!

In just a minute you're going to hear music.

You're going to join with us, hopefully, because it's an invitation to you to join us,

as we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, most lung capacity expanding,

joyful heart, invigorating, troubled mind, cleansing, weary soul, upest, the deepest, most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating,

troubled mind, cleansing, weary soul, uplifting the most amazingly juicy breath. As we kick off

our most important segment of every single day, it is time for our moment of gratitude. Thank you. I'm going to

The Every day, folks, every day we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians, the podcast community, the YouTube community.

I am just grateful for every single one of y'all.

And I want to today return to the concepts that we had been exploring just a little bit

with regards to indigenity, right? We acknowledge that on Monday we celebrated an honored

Indigenous Heritage Day because it's deserving of our acknowledgement. And then we've reminded ourselves that while that Indigenous Heritage Day is it's deserving of our acknowledgement and then we've reminded

ourselves that while that Indigenous Heritage Day is focused on indigenous people to this

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